LAND OF THEIR CHOICE: The Immigrants Write Home.
by Blegen, Theodore C., editor
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in salmon cloth in a good only dust jacket. (a bit of dustiness to edges of textblock, price-clipped, short tears, ove/salmon cloth in a good only
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About This Item
St. Paul, MN:: University of Minnesota Press,, (1955). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in salmon cloth in a good only dust jacket. (a bit of dustiness to edges of textblock, price-clipped, short tears, overall edgewear, rubbing at corners of dj and folds but a tight, sturdy and clean copy) . First printing. Letters from the middle of the 19th century by Norwegian immigrants to those they left behind - written orignally in Norwegian and here translated into English. Includes chapters on the "Sloopfolk" arriving, settling in Wisconsin, the Atlantic crossing; the Transatlantic gold rush; the Southwest and more. Edited and with a foreword by Theodore Blegen. Index xix, 463 pp.
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- Title
- LAND OF THEIR CHOICE: The Immigrants Write Home.
- Author
- Blegen, Theodore C., editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in salmon cloth in a good only dust jacket. (a bit of dustiness to edges of textblock, price-clipped, short tears, ove
- Jacket Condition
- salmon cloth in a good only
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press,
- Place of Publication
- St. Paul, MN:
- Date Published
- (1955)
- Keywords
- european immigration, norway, wisconsin, texas, gold rush, religion,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Immigration/border;
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